1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827320903321

Titolo

Understanding rock [[electronic resource] ] : essays in musical analysis / / edited by John Covach and Graeme M. Boone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-19-772952-5

0-19-988012-3

1-4237-4048-3

1-280-45166-1

0-19-535662-4

1-60256-076-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CovachJohn Rudolph

BooneGraeme M <1954-> (Graeme MacDonald)

Disciplina

781.66/0973

781.660973

Soggetti

Rock music - History and criticism

Rock music - Analysis, appreciation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; 1 Progressive Rock, "Close to the Edge," and the Boundaries of Style; 2 After Sundown The Beach Boys' Experimental Music; 3 Blues Transformations in the Music of Cream; 4 Joanie" Get Angry k. d. lang's Feminist Revision; 5 Swallowed by a Song Paul Simon's Crisis of Chromaticism; 6 "Little Wing" A Study in Musical Cognition; 7 Tonal and Expressive Ambiguity in "Dark Star"; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Amid the recent increase in scholarly attention to rock music, Understanding Rock stands out as one of the first books that subjects diverse aspects of the music itself to close and sophisticated analytical scrutiny. Written by some of the best young scholars in musicology and music theory, the essays in this volume use harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, formal, and textual approaches in order to show how and why rock music works as music. Topics of discussion include the



adaptation of blues and other styles to rock; the craft of songwriting; techniques and strategies of improvisation; the reinterpr

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156176903321

Titolo

Winston Churchill : politics, strategy and statecraft / / edited by Richard Toye

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York  : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017

ISBN

9781474263887

1474263887

9781474263870

1474263879

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Classificazione

HIS015000HIS037070HIS027000

Disciplina

941.084092

B

Soggetti

Prime ministers - Great Britain

Great Britain Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Churchill: The Young Statesman, 1901-1914 -- 3. Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, 23 October 1911 - 24 May 1915 -- 4. Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924-9) and the Return to the Gold Standard -- 5. Churchill and Labour -- 6. Churchill and the General Strike, 1926 -- 7. Churchill and Women -- 8. Churchill and Empire -- 9. Churchill and the Islamic -- 10. Churchill and Airpower -- 11. Churchill as Strategist in World War Two -- 12. The Birth of the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' -- 13. Churchill and Nuclear Weapons -- 14. Winston Churchill and the Cold War -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"A collection of short, accessible chapters on the key aspects of Winston Churchill's military and political career and his impact on 20th-century history."--